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Brilliantly inventive, written with great flair and shows a deliciously comic and ironic sense of American realities.
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Born in New York but raised in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, worried about starving even while living in luxury, Mark Niven sets his heart on recovering the treasure ship Flora, which sank in 1820 somewhere between Barbados and Florida. Searching for the wreck, he falls in love with the neglected wife of a jealous husband, and his love as well as his dreams of riches turn into nightmare experiences….
Esterházy achieved in this book a real literarian tour-de-force which mixes most unexpected and revealing ingredients. Two brothers and a sister, summoned by their father and reunited at the hospital where their mother lies on her deathbed, must come to grips with their relationships with both their parents
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs.
Unusual, shocking, politically incorrect, and humorous stories about joy and struggle of a newcomer in the United States. / Amerikai-angolt tanulók számára, illetve azoknak, akik szeretik a szokatlan, megrázó, politikailag helytelen és humoros történeteket.